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Georgina Dorsett ( nee Peters )

Added: 21 Jan 2018 13:45 GMT

IP: 90.199.231.0

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Post by Georgina Dorsett ( nee Peters ): Thrift FarmMy parents moved to 1 Thrift Farm lane Borehamwood in 1947 from London, the farm was next to their house, it was a dirt track leading to the house. In front of our house was a cornfield we often had pigs come in our front garden and i would walk to the farm to see the animals particularly the sheep. They built a tarmac road when Holmshill school was built, and we no longer had a wonderful view of lovely cornfields was such a shame.

Scott Hatton

Added: 19 Dec 2017 20:11 GMT

IP: 217.63.194.106

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Post by Scott Hatton: 12 Wansford Park, WD6We moved to 12 Wansford Park during August 1960, moving out during 1967.

My parents had managed to wangle themselves into a house in London W10 which was due to be demolished by the local council. Thus the council moved them into a much better place (inside toilet!) opposite Tempsford Green in Borehamwood.

John Dye

Added: 1 Dec 2017 14:50 GMT

IP: 86.131.134.236

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Post by John Dye: Cool Oak Lane, NW9I lived at Queensbury Road, Kingsbury during World War II and used to play regularly along the edge of the Welsh Harp. About halfway along Cool Oak Lane on the south side was a pond we used to call Froggy Pond. It was the only place I ever saw a water scorpion, Nepa cinerea.
At the end of the war, all the street air raid shelters were knocked down and the rubble was piled up on the ground south of the Cool Oak Lane bridge, on the Hendon side. I remember that this heap of rubble became infested with rats and I used to watch them from the bridge. I was told that an old house on the south side of Cool Oak Lane (Woodfield House?) was once owned by the wife of Horatio Nelson. I think it later became the nurseries for plants grown for the Hendon parks.

John Morton

Added: 17 Nov 2017 14:36 GMT

IP: 217.63.194.106

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Post by John Morton: Manor Way, WD6I remember the following shops along Manor Way: Martins, Bishop’s, the Co Op and Dewhurst.

Ron

Added: 24 Sep 2017 22:22 GMT

IP: 92.6.6.10

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Post by Ron: ColindaleThe leather business and ’Leatherville’ was set up by Arthur Garstin, not GARSTON.
:o)

Martina

Added: 13 Jul 2017 21:22 GMT

IP: 146.198.174.6

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Post by Martina: Schweppes FactoryThe site is now a car shop and Angels Fancy Dress shop and various bread factories are there.

Scott Hatton

Added: 30 Jun 2017 15:58 GMT

IP: 217.63.200.50

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Post by Scott Hatton: BorehamwoodI was brought up in Borehamwood - first in Wansford Park and later in Theobald Street.

Irene Smith

Added: 30 Jun 2017 15:46 GMT

IP: 217.63.200.50

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Post by Irene Smith: Keystone Passage, WD6My mother worked at Keystones in the 1940 before she was married.

She later worked at home which a lot of people did. You would often see people walking around Boreham Wood with boxes filled with piecework for the factory.

LDNnews

Added: 19 Nov 2018 18:20 GMT

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Post by LDNnews: Hendon CentralTraffic issues aplenty on a bleak Monday eveningIt is a Monday and the weather’s bleak. Get home safely.

Post by LDNnews: Wembley ParkThousands of letting agents posting 'No DSS' adverts could violate Equality Act One in five letting agents in England are potentially breaking the law with adverts that discriminate against people on housing benefit.

Post by LDNnews: StanmoreTheresa May faces fierce Tory backlash as 'full Brexit could be delayed until next election in 2022'Theresa May faced a fierce Tory backlash today after admitting that full Brexit could be delayed until the next general election in 2022.

Post by LDNnews: Burnt OakMooooove over: There is a new milkman of the year and he comes from WimbledonA Wimbledon milkman who continuously goes above and beyond for his customers has been named best in the country.

Post by LDNnews: Brent CrossUefa Nations League semi finals explained: When is it and who will England face?Harry Kane ensured a year to cherish would end with a bang as England came from behind against World Cup semi-final foes Croatia to reach the inaugural Nations League Finals.

Edgware tube station is a London Underground station in Edgware, in the London Borough of Barnet, in north London. The station is the terminus of the ’’Edgware branch’’ of the Northern Line.

Edgware (sometimes Edgeware) was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. Edgware is a Saxon name meaning Ecgi’s weir. Ecgi’s was a Saxon and the weir relates to a pond where Ecgi’s people would catch fish.

The Romans made pottery at Brockley Hill, and is thought by some to be the site of Sulloniacis. To the north west was Canons Park erected by Duke of Chandos.

From 1932 - 1965, Edgware was in the Borough of Hendon.

The majority of Edgware nowadays is a ward in the London Borough of Barnet represented by three councillors. The western edge of the Edgware Road is in the London Borough of Harrow.

It is principally a shopping and residential area and is more widely known as being a northern terminus of the Northern Line. There is a bus garage, a shopping centre called The Mall (formerly known as The Broadwalk), and a library. There is a large hospital, Edgware Hospital. There are two streams, Edgware Brook and Deans Brook, which are tributaries of the River Brent.

Edgware tube station was opened on 18 August 1924 as the terminus of the second phase of the Underground Group's extension of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway from Golders Green. It was designed by architect Stanley Heaps. There are three platforms, an island lying east of a single platform (platform 1). A trainshed covers the island platforms (2 and 3).

Despite having already had a railway station since 1867 (Edgware station on the London and North Eastern Railway), Edgware was, in 1924, still very much a village in character. The new Underground station was built on the north edge of the village in open fields and, as intended, the new line stimulated rapid suburban expansion along its length. By the end of the decade, what had formerly been fields was quickly being covered with new housing.

The site of the station is very close to the location intended for the unbuilt Watford and Edgware Railway's (W&ER's) station, which was intended to be built on a branch from the existing single-track LNER branch before the terminus and run through to Watford Junction via Bushey.

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